Kharkov, to Rakovsky
Copy to Vladimirov

The most careful calculation of anticipated grain supplies, taking into account the prolonged interruption of communications with Siberia, with the aim of at least some mitigation of the food crisis in the center, compels me in the most categorical manner to demand that Ukrnarkomprод carry out regular shipments of forty carloads of foodstuffs daily with destination — the center. I express an urgent desire for the shipment of sixty carloads in accordance with Vladimirov's dispatch No. 3781, convinced that Ukrnarkomprод will respond warmly to this appeal. For its part, I ask Ukrnarkomprод to display maximum effort and immediately take all available measures to fulfill this new assignment and thereby alleviate our food situation at this extremely difficult moment for us, with the aim of rendering actual assistance in the matter of sending grain to Central Russia.

Premier of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Published incompletely

from the typescript

signed by V. I. Lenin

Written 23 February 1921

Published 3 March 1921 in

"Food Gazette" No. 41

Published in full for the first time,